{"id":2995,"date":"2018-08-29T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:56:24","slug":"harvest-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/2018\/08\/29\/harvest-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong> Legacy of the Plains Museum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Harvest Festival<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> September 15-16, 2018 \u2013 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Legacy of the Plains Museum, 2930 Old Oregon Trail, Gering, NE 69341<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission:<\/strong> TBA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 22nd year, the annual Harvest Festival is one of the premier events on the western Nebraska calendar, held the third weekend of September every year. Thousands of travelers from throughout Nebraska and neighboring states come to Legacy of the Plains for a rare glimpse of antique farm machinery in action \u2014 and the chance for hands-on participation. Come see a restored Jayhawk Hay Stacker!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harvest tubers to take home in the pick-your-own potato patch (price depends on the size of the container \u2013 prices TBA). There are demonstrations of antique equipment centering around the year\u2019s featured crop \u2013 hay and livestock. Other aspects of the family-friendly event include daily parades of horse-drawn equipment and tractors; food vendors; demonstrations of blacksmithing; small engines, and corn shelling and grinding; and kids\u2019 activities, including a hay bale fort, pedal tractor course, a barrel train ride, and games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy of the Plains Museum &nbsp; Harvest Festival &nbsp; Date: September 15-16, 2018 \u2013 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Location: Legacy of the Plains Museum, 2930 Old Oregon Trail, Gering, NE 69341 Admission: TBA &nbsp; Now in its 22nd year, the annual Harvest Festival is one of the premier events&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/2018\/08\/29\/harvest-festival\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}